I made some tweaks to Fortress. Mostly styling but now all of the rel-me checking happens on the fly. By default; it’ll be inactive so Fortress returns pretty quickly. I should have that fixed up with it trickling in correct values (which will stay correct, btw) over time. And to ensure that this isn’t a fully JavaScript dependent site; I’ll have it present a notice about it refreshing every 3 - 10 (adjustable) seconds to check if the verification’s completed.

Had a little hiccup handling some of the logic for silos (GitHub and Patreon) so the release of that capability will be delayed a few days. However, #Fortress has experimental support for being a hosted OAuth2 provider already with documentation on the home page.

Also, by Friday, we plan to have support for silos like GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn, Patreon and Keybase. After that, work on allowing people to use sites that point to #ActivityPub sites like Pleroma, Pixelfed or Mastodon and #IndieWeb sites will be under-way!

We've made some updates to #Fortress! Though not completed, the sign-in flow is _almost_ there - should be done by end of this week. Also we've settled on a logo for #Fortress, the first of the projects to get one!

I'm working on a daily tool that'll show how much money @blackaf earns (income, grants, incoming donations) and spends (outgoing donations, expenses, bills) to continue the provable trend that independent work can be sustainable _and_ that F/LOSS can be supported in this fashion.

* #Fortress is getting a face-lift of its detection of h-cards so it'll be more accurate.* #Koype is entering a heavy bug-fixing mode and its CI system is being locked down.* The landing site is being re-built to highlight Patreon contributors (been punting on this for some time)

I'll be updating the Patreon followers over at http://patreon.com/jackyalcine with more updates (that'll be the place until a more solid bridge is in place).

Finally working on my #IndieAuth solution called Fortress! It'll live under the @blackaf collection of services. There's a few things I'm hoping to have it support #Fediverse services that expose OAuth2 provider logic!

I'm expecting that in 2019 interest in self-hosting will increase because between government regulation and misguided faith in AI I don't see the problems which Facebook and Twitter have being easily resolved by any silver bullet solution.

Often after people have used the fediverse for a while they want to try hosting their own instance.

In the UK context I expect that in February/March Twitter will become an unbearable stream of brexit fights and screaming centrists. These days you only have to utter the wrong AI trigger phrase and your account gets suspended, so I think there will be lots of people swearing at particular politicians and then having their accounts suspended and showing up in the fediverse that way.

I'll try to keep the brexit stuff to a minimum, and behind CW. It's bound to be mostly boring Westminster village obsessions. If a revolutionary situation emerges though that could be worth reporting upon. Things like an attempted coup are maybe possible.

Here’s to working towards more freedom, justice, and equality in 2019. It’s not going to get any easier. It’s probably going to get harder. All that matters is we keep chipping away at the problem and working on the solutions. Every little thing we do, whether it’s raising awareness or reducing harm or creating ethical alternatives… it all matters.

Heck, the fact I can write this on the fediverse is reason enough to be hopeful.